Best Soir Poems

The Evening Soup, Translation of Paul Verlaine’s La soupe du soir

						To J.-K. Huysmans

(Verlaine here paints a stark tableau of working-class or peasant life shorn of any symbolic or imaginary references. Even if I see no reason to keep to the strict rhyme scheme, I have...

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TONIGHT then maybe 
this Evening awaits me
that place i drink
in some peace
 leaving song
leaving words
leaving paintings
behind?  This never.

  My constitution
bravely happier:

i am supremely 
patient!

The sneeze gave me
reprieve.  These tears
a single eternal moment
my pain resigned
if i have gold then
shall i choose North
: deeply...

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It's been a beautiful day!
My being swims in the lotus poetry
Of souls penned true lamentations!
I can feel their lachrymose tears on
my soul's pages.

A poem has its own heart that can
without, a key.... open mine.
And pour its wisdom into my silky fine,
living, heart that becomes thine.
To...

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